Ok, but the ESB doesn't have a giant mall grafted on it either. It has a lobby.
the RenCen had a food court and a couple of lobby levels of retail before Cullen's band of merry idiots got their hands on it. There was no need for the ridiculousness that is the Wintergarden. I mean, not only was it totally unnecessary, a hard sell in a good location [[as you allude to re: the ESB) its badly executed to boot. A lot of people watched that disaster unfold could not believe the fantasyland the people running the show were living in. I mean you should have seen some of the memos that went around with updates on the progress and the expected occupancy rates.
Further, saying that the RenCen was the most successful thing GM did in the 90s is not exactly setting a high bar there.lol
From a morale standpoint it was a disaster. From a financial standpoint it was a disaster. As far as it being good corporate citizenship...ok.. maybe. but, being a good corporate citizen didn't help them sell any cars. And they could have been better corporate citizens by actually getting the residential built..or at the very least, landscaping the riverfront parking lots into something to be used for something other than parking lots on the fucking RIVERFRONT. In any event, the State and the City could have moved in to the RenCen like they did at the old GM building and done the same thing GM did ...minus the wintergarden that is. They spent a ton getting the GM Building up to snuff... could have just as easily spent it on unfucking the disasterous interior layout of the RenCen.
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